The Art of Living in Community...
Thinking about Education, School, Teaching and Learning. What ideas do we have about the future and how do these inform our actions in the present?
How might we engage, act and think differently?
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Simple Habits for Complex Times

I'm going to re read this book over the next couple of months. I'm going to do a slow read. The kind of read where you really sit with the flavours and wait in between chapters. I'm hoping to notice a deeper flavour.

I'm finding my self rethinking the importance of asking different questions and the role different questions play in shaping feed back. I'm thinking this is more potent that I first thought.

I am wondering how the ideas in this book can inform my teaching Inquiry during 2016. At first glance things like 'teaching Inquiries' are treated as complicated. Almost as if they were a puzzle that with the right amount of knowledge and skills we will be able to solve. However, my thinking has shifted. Teaching Inquiries are complex.

Over the next few weeks, as I re read, I will add my thinking to this blog post.

Chapter 1 - Leading the possibleChapter 2 - Engage with complexity, but keep it simpleChapter 3 - Say What you Think, Listen to the Ways You Might Be Wrong The title of this chapter in itself is a reason to read this book!Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 -

When I think about Education I think about verbs like warmth of Interaction, commoning and nod-ing (if such a word exists!)
"Node. The point of rest between two wave motions of a vibrating string etc."
The New Oxford Companionship to Music
Vol 2 K-Z
Denis Arnold 1983
Oxford University Press